2026 BC Provincial Election – Community Housing Resources

This provincial election resource page is your central hub for timely information and resources during the provincial election period this October. It is designed to help community housing providers follow the important party announcements related to community housing and the whole housing system, as well as highlight existing resources to support evidence-based discussions housing providers may be having during the election.

New resources will be added throughout the election period, so check back regularly for updates.

Resource Library

Housing policy and sector priorities

Build More. Protect More. A New Affordable Housing Plan for BC
Launched in 2024, the Affordable Housing Plan for BC outlines evidence-based solutions to address the province’s affordable housing crisis. The plan sets out recommendations to build more affordable homes, protect existing affordable housing, and strengthen supports for people most affected by housing insecurity.

A Guide to Municipal Elections for Community Housing Providers
Created for the 2026 municipal election campaign, this toolkit provides community housing providers with resources to support advocacy, strengthen engagement with governments, and advance sector priorities. The toolkit has resources that can support the sector’s provincial election messages and encourage commitments and actions tied to sector goals: Build More, Protect More, and Support More community housing.

Community Housing at the Local Level: Tools & Resources
Created for the 2026 municipal election campaign, this toolkit provides resources to support local candidates’ knowledge about the role of community housing providers and how local governments can make an impact. Resources include fact sheets, engagement guides, voter research, and templates that can support informed conversations during the provincial election.

Backgrounder: Expiry of Operating Agreements
This guide is a backgrounder on the expiry of operating agreements and the implications for non-profit housing providers, housing affordability and local governments. It supports the sector’s provincial key messages by highlighting data on affordable homes at risk across BC and outlines the importance of ongoing support to preserve existing affordable housing across the province.

Indigenous housing research and advocacy

British Columbia Urban, Rural, And Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy

Aboriginal Housing Management Association: Annual Report

Indigenous-Led Housing Needs Assessment

Indigenous Housing Needs Data Resource Library

AHMA: PiT Count Dashboard

AHMA’s UBCM Resolution

AHMA Government Advocacy Framework

 

 

2026 BC Provincial Election Platform Tracker

This tracker will be updated throughout the 2026 election cycle as new housing-related announcements are released. Last updated October 9, 2026.

This tracker summarizes housing-related commitments announced by provincial parties during the 2026 election. It is intended as an informational resource to compare party positions on housing and related issues. The tracker is not an endorsement of any party or platform, nor does it assess the feasibility or effectives of individual commitments. It compiles publicly announced policy proposals in one place and directs readers to the original party sources for more information.

BC Conservatives

Oct 8th, announced:

• Economic plan that includes introducing a 120-Day Permitting Act to accelerate investment and major project development.
• Reducing regulatory barriers and introducing targeted incentives to attract private-sector investment.

Oct 7th, Full plan released

And announced:

• Economic plans that include appointing an expert panel to deliver a plan within 180 days to simplify BC’s taxes and attract investment.
• Selecting a new Minister for Red Tape Reduction to lead a specialized, business team working across governments

Oct 6th, announced:

• Expanding psychiatric services, crisis response and residential treatment.
• Implementing involuntary care through “compassionate intervention.”
• Amending the Mental Health Act to enable police intervention powers related to mandatory treatment.
• Ending safe supply and expanding access to naloxone.
• Prohibiting illegal drug use in publicly funded supportive housing, shelters and hospitals.

Sep 25th announced:

• They will bring down the cost of building and buying a home.

BC Green Party

2026, Full plan released

Oct 6th announced:

• Raising social and disability assistance rates to the market-basket measure of poverty and index them to inflation.
• Developing and implementing an Indigenous focused poverty reduction plan that addresses the impacts of colonization and dispossession.
• Raise $22.2 billion in the first year through a “one-time Fair Share tax” on extreme wealth to fund affordable housing, universal childcare, and free public transit.

Oct 4th, announced:

• Increasing renter supports through the Rental Assistance Program (RAP) and raising Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) threshold.
• Implementing vacancy control (including in assisted living).
• Allowing renters to seek an annual rent review through the Residential Tenancy Branch when market rents in their city decrease.

Sept 29th, announced:

• Building and protecting 26,000 housing units per year.
• Restarting the Community Housing Fund and Indigenous Housing Fund.
• Increasing funding and support for the Rental Protection Fund to protect 2,000 deeply affordable rental homes each year.
• Adequate and equitable funding for Indigenous-led Complex Care Housing, designed and determined by Indigenous communities.
• Trauma-informed housing allocations and supported Rent Supplements set aside for Indigenous Peoples and administered in line with guidance from Indigenous organizations and communities, surrounded by supportive services.

Oct 2nd, announced:

• Increasing access to transitional and public housing, with wrap-around healthcare and harm reduction principles.
• Making supervised consumption and overdose prevention sites connection points for detox, recovery, housing and other supports.
• Enhancing access to supervised consumption sites and overdose prevention sites.
• Decriminalising possession of drugs for personal use; treating drug use as a health and social issue.
• Building out mobile and 24-hour overdose prevention sites.
• Ensuring supports for individuals working on the frontlines and those with lived experiences of substance use.
• Creating an evidence-based standard of care for all substance use treatment services.

BC NDP

Oct 5th, announced:

• New health care supports for seniors, which includes expanding home care supports by adding 500 health-workers.
• Increasing supports for long-term care residents.

Oct 4th, announced:

• Increase tax rates on higher income brackets, including the introduction of a new tax bracket for income over $1 million, to generate additional provincial revenue.
• Invest additional revenue in public services and affordability measures.

Oct 2nd, announced:

• Involuntary care in the Kelowna region.

Sept 25th, announced:

• Increasing speculation and vacancy tax and direct any additional revenue into building more affordable homes.
• Introducing an Unsold Condo Tax on completed condos left empty for more than a year

CentreBC

No housing related announcements since 2026 election writ dropped.

One BC

Released their full party plan for 2026 election, which includes:

• Eliminating the BC Energy Step Code to reduce housing construction costs.
• Blocking municipal rent control programs.
• Eliminating safe supply and drug consumption programs.
• Turning current consumption sites into drug recovery centres.
• Involuntary drug rehab and housing.
• Rollback of decriminalization programs.